[CLTann]

Being close to the medical community, I would like to interpret many health providers viewpoint. Not that I agree with them, but just to bring to focus how the patient-doctor relationship may be viewed from the other side.

To many (most) doctors, the patients are not ones they would like to be friends. They most certainly want to keep a distance with them, and avoid to become emotionally involved. We are just another numbers on their list to see for the day. We are their sources of income. Therefore, their priority is quite different from our priority. Good doctors certainly try to give the best to their patients, but rarely go all out to exhaustively find the extraordinary avenue to do research and comb medical journals for the best solutions. Nurses are generally one grade better in human relation with patients, but they answer obediently to their masters.

As you may have detected, I have a very low level of respect for most doctors. They never consider your time is just as important as theirs. They know we are anxiously waiting for test result but your worry is rarely a concern for them. Very few doctors will greet you on the street or open door for you. They were taught that way in the medical schools.

We therefore must put up with their god-like attitude since there is no other viable alternate. Too bad that they know that too. Have you looked up at the divorce statistics among doctors?